Literature of Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy- Jay Burns

The Martian is considered to be one of the first Mars stories that is actually probable to reality, no monsters or aliens or anything like that. It is based of science and even tries its best to be as realistic to what living on Mars could be like. I think while reading this book I found it was an interesting an original mix between sci-fi and non-fiction. It was almost documentary in that is was documenting how Watney planned on getting through his time on Mars and trying to survive. In non-fiction, it stays as true to life as possible, many non-fiction stories being autobiographies or documentary style stories. It goes through his thought processes in a rational way and doesn't seem outlandish like most other science fiction stories. It could even be debated that The Martian is more of a science non-fiction than a science fiction novel. Although the story it tells is falls, it barely fits into the rest of other science fiction stories in how realistic it is. Most of the time scie

I've always been a Harry Potter fan but only ever stuck to the movies but this week I finally motivated myself to read the first book. It's hard to go from watching a movie many times and then reading the book and not being able to image every single scene exactly the way it is in the movies but there were some new things I learned about the world that I hadn't known before. Harry Potter is a book and movie series that mostly everyone is familiar with but the books present a lot more than just a fantastic and believable world and characters. As young adult novels, they take on the goal of also teaching moral and spiritual lessons that a young adult has to learn as they become an adult. The biggest lesson that I personally learned from Harry Potter is that your idols/teachers can be heavily flawed too. I was shocked when I learned Dumbledore had done terrible things in his life and even basically brought Harry up for him to die. It was so shocking to me that even the man th